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 Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:32 pm
"Naw, my dragon decided we needed to go for a ride." she told them around a mouthful of bread and fish before swallowing. "I didn't get to eat when everybody else did. Ya know what I had to tell'im? I had to tell'im I'd go buy him some Slim Jims before he'd come back down again."
She finished her sandwich in another couple bites and then went for her bread roll. How it was that she didn't gain any weight was beyond comprehension. "Who're you guys?" she asked good-naturedly. Age was not all that important to her, she, much like an overly-friendly dog, just liked meeting new people.
Her nose quivered, picking up their scents. On one of them, she caught a faint whiff of something familiar. It almost smelled like that horrible pungent fear stench Alex gave off when he was in one of his panics. That stuff got in your clothes and didn't go away for days. Of course, only people with hypersensitive noses even NOTICED, but still...
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:45 pm
"I'm Damaris, this is Molly, Susan, and that's Jaynie," she said, plucking crumbs of muffin off her own shirt. "We were just talking about how dumb boys were."
Damaris was admiring her spots and speckles. So many colors! All OVER! All Damaris had were stripes and only just a few here and there.
"Did you always have all those spots? They kinda look like you painted them," Damaris tilted her head at her.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:49 pm
"What, these? Nope these're mine." she grinned, polishing off the roll and finally cracking open her milk. She got the feeling she should know the stripety one. Had they met before? Maybe when she was younger...?
....hazy images of a nature trail came to mind.
"Hey. You're gonna think this is dumb....did you ever have a lizard doll when you were younger? Like a Harpie Doll, but not really?" she asked Damaris.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:57 pm
"Yeah!" Damaris thought with her mouth open, shoving an apple to her mouth and leaning on her cheek with her hand. "My Dadda made me one and one for my cousin Taylor! He painted human ones up and stuck feathers and things on them. I still got mine.... lots more, too... but the regular Harpie clothes don't wanna fit too good."
She let her eyes wander and her eyes went wide as she recognised someone behind Damaris.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:18 pm
"I think I remember you!" Sharika said gleefully. "Didn't we go to a nature trail once? Like way back when? It was a long time ago, I dunno if you--" she stopped, noting Damaris's wide eyes.
"What?" she asked, looking behind herself in time to see Alex taking a seat at one of the tables near the back of the dining area that was unpopulated. "Pfft, that's just Alex." she said with a dismissive wave, returning to her food like it was her job.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:21 pm
"You KNOW him!?" Damaris was astounded that someone she remembered from when she was very small knew that strange boy who ran into her in the hallway the other day. "Hmph, tell him he owes me a 'I'm sorry' for hitting me with his elbow yesterday."
"Yeah, she was just playin' with him an' he flips out," explained Molly.
"And he started to spazz out 'cause Damaris said she was from Mars," Susan said.
They all started laughing.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:28 pm
"Oh are YOU the reason Mom had to peel him off the ceiling?" Sharika laughed. "Yeah he lives with me. I dunno...he's like that all the time. He sees ghosts and aliens all over the house and spends all day in the closet with tape recorder sometimes. I keep TELLIN' him, though, I say 'Alex, the reason you don't have any friends is because you're a weirdo' and then he says something about Bigfoot and goes back to putting duct tape on the windows."
She drank deeply of her milk. "Ma gave him some pills that're supposed to make him stop it, but I don't think they're working." she added, wiping her mouth on the back of one hand.
Alone at his table, Alex meticulously went through his lunch with a spork, occasionally spooning something up, running his pocket scanner over it, and then putting it in his mouth when the readings appeared normal.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:33 pm
"He's not gonna pick up anything with a stupid old tape recorder," Damaris replied with nonchalance. "I thought it was something more scary. I heard now there's better kindsa stuff for listening to ghosts. I don't hear anything except Dadda and Meka snoring at night with my digital corder."
"Damaris said her house was haunted," Susan said, giggling. "But we had a slumber party to look during tha summer an' all we found were old socks under tha bed."
"And dustbunnies," Damaris said. "Dadda said he ate all the ghosts, that's soooo not fun."
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:41 pm
"Alex says he saw ghosts in the toilet once. He locked himself in the bathroom and wouldn't let anybody use it till he'd made them go away." A series of tater tots began to vanish into her jaws as she grinned toothily.
"He buys all that ghost stuff from the internet. He's got scanners and recorders and a whole bunch of books." She told the younger girls. "I bet HE would've found ghosts at your house...he finds'em everywhere." there was a mingling of amusement with an undertone of pity in her voice.
It was hard to tell whether Alex LIKED being weird or if he couldn't help it.
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:48 pm
"Dama thinks he's cute," teased Molly as she wadded up her paper lunchbag and was getting ready to take off to her next class. "I gotta go see my eggy, see ya!"
"I did NOT say he was cute, I said his glasses were cute 'cause they made him look even more scared," Damaris spat out bits of apple as she protested. "Dontcha get sick eating all that stuff all at once?"
Soon after Molly, Susan and Jaynie left for their classes. Damaris was stuck again in study hall. It was booooooring! Apparently getting certain classes was getting more and more difficult because of more students showing up, so every other student had strange scheduling. It didn't bother Damaris so much other than it kept her away from her friends.
"The slumber party wouldn't a been so bad if Meka didn't start a fight over the dishes again," Damaris said more out loud than to Sharika. "Dadda's always grumpy before he eats and he forgot it was his turn to do dishes," she explained to the only audience she had though she paused to see Alex twitching over something in the large trashbin where the students had been throwing away what they didn't eat. "Why's he poking an empty bag of Cheetohs?"
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:55 pm
Sharika looked over her shoulder again at her adopted brother and swallowed what she had in her mouth. "ALEX!" she barked at him, making him jolt and lift his head to goggle at her "Yer gonna be late again!"
He looked like he was about to say something, but then caught sight of Damaris, a look of horror washing over his face as he turned and scuttled away, no doubt to go hole himself up somewhere, convinced the aliens had gotten to Sharika.
"You live with somebody named mecha?" she asked, as though she'd never stopped the conversation. "Like....Mecha Gamora?" her eyes lit up. That would be COOL!
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 8:29 pm
The first bell rang and Damaris sped to put her lunchbox into her backpack.
"I gotta get to study hall," she said to Sharika. "It was nice seeing you again, I'll ask Dadda if Meka's last name was Gamora, 'cause I don't know what that means."
She waved to Sharika and sped past Alex, making Vulcan signs. "Live long and prosper!" she giggled, then sped away.
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